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from within.

It is only fitting, then, that a being so trapped within the arena of opposition should entangle itself in a relationship of interdependence with the government, whose minions are represented by characters at the other extreme of physical form. Fudge and Umbridge are squat, smug, little tyrantsfat bureaucrats covered in labyrinthine layers of legislative gristle.

Between Voldemort and the Ministry officials lies a third element, the unctuous corporate robots of annihilation, known as the "Death Eaters". These are the armies of oppression and destruction, which every institutional ideology of church or state has had occasion to employ in its depredationseither as physical or economic force (usually a combination of both). The "corps" of armed force is cut from the same ideological fabric as the "corporate" weaponry of greed. This element is personified in the character of Lucius Malfoy, whose oily wealth is the forward advance of Voldemort's infiltration, his army of inner occupation.

The evil represented by Voldemort-consciousness is spread amid the noise and violence of conflict. The rant of litigation at home is merely the echo of the clamor of war abroad; the same distortions of ego perpetuate domestic violence and the destruction of our planet's atmosphere. Evil cannot hear the voice of inner truth because it is deafened by the noise of its manufactured conflicts. This inner deafness of evil14 is a function of its fundamental lack of realityit is a distortion of nature, a parallel, artificial construction with no inherent substance. Even as he is tortured by Voldemort, something within Harry perceives that he is dealing with a mere illusiona power that has no further substance than did the memories he had encountered in the Pensieve. Guided by this insight, Harry is able to deal with Voldemort by drawing upon the pure and vibrant energies of light and help. In the graveyard scene of Book Four, they are symbolized by the spirits of the dead victims of Voldemort, which protect Harry and enable his escape. These are energies that the delusion represented by Voldemort can neither acknowledge nor comprehend, except through the inner thievery of possession.

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